Cigar and cigarette lighter



Dec. 17, 1929. N.. E. HAMMERSTROM. 1,740,089

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE LIGHTER Filed July 5, 1924 8 mum 1110i,

Patented Dec. 17, 1929 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE CIGAR AND CIGARETTE LIGHTER Application filed July 3, 1924. Serial N0. 724,064.

This invention relates to cigar and cigarettes, and particularly to an ignition device adapted to be inserted in the end of same for lighting the cigar or cigarette, and the said invention is of particular importance when used in windy weather, or by drivers of automobiles who often, while the automobile is in motion, experience difficulty in lighting the article which they want to smoke.

It is an object of this invention to provide a device which can be built into the cigar or cigarette when being manufactured; and it is also an object of this invention to produce an ignitible device having a spur which will facilitate the anchorage of the lighting device in a cigar or cigarette, through the application of pressure of the device lengthwise or axially of the article to be smoked.

It is furthermore an object of this invention to produce ignitible or inflammable plugs composed of a composition, such as are used for making the heads of so-called safety matches, and as the inventor does not wish to 2 be limited with respect to the ingredients or proportions of the ingredients that compose the lighter, no attempt will be made to enlarge upon the description of the manner of makin it, except as to the feature of the spur or point on the end of the body of the lighter, which facilitates the application of the lighter to the article to be smoked.

It is furthermore an object of this invention to produce a lighter of the character indicated which can be conveniently carried for use, and one embodiment of the invention includes the formation of the igniters in blocks, in which provision is made for the removal of one of the lighters at a time, the remaining lighters being left joined together for use later.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application where.-

an AU in like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation, partly in section, of a cigarette showing a lighter embodying one form of the invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a similar view of a which will cause the lighter to ignite. f

In the form of the invention of the lighter shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, the body of the lighter is square in cross section and it has a spur or pointed end13 which will facilitate its application to the article to be smoked, as will be understood.

In Figs. 3 and 4, there is illustrated a plu rality of igniters, made up of a series of sections such as 13 formed as a card or block, each section having an anchor 13 which latter may be forced into the filler of the article to be smoked, whereas the sections 18 will form the heads of the igniter which may be ignited in the usual way that a safety match is ignited. The heads or sections l3 may, of course, be square as they are illustrated in the drawing, or they might be round or of other configuration, so that the inventor does not wish to be limited with respect to this detail.

In Fig. 6, the body 14 of the lighter is cylindrical and it has a tapered end or anchoring prong 15 which facilitates its application to the article to be smoked, since it may be pushed into the end of the cigar or cigarette, leaving its end projected to facilitate its abrasion in lighting.

Figure 7 illustrates a conical body 16, whereas Figure 8 illustrates the igniter as having a head 17 a shank 18 and a prong or 1 anchoring point 19, and it Will be understood from What has been said that igniters of the shape shown in Fig. 8 may be made in blocks similar to those shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and when this is done, the sections of the blocks corresponding to the sections 13 will be circular instead of square.

If desired, the 'igniters could be formed in any of the shapes illustrated and their ends could be applied to a carrier such as cardboard or the like, to Which they may be secured by adhesive in any appropriate Way, so that they may be taken from the carrier, one at a time, by a pressure laterally on the thorns.

I claim A new article-of manufacture comprising cards of cigar lighters consisting of a plurality of members composed of friotionally ignitible material oinedtogether and having intersectingm'rooves between them constituting lines of fracture whereby one maybe disconnected from the .others,and spurs of like material integral Witheach .ofsaid members,

substantially as described.

NORMAN E. I-IAMMER-STROM. 

